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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would you force your teens to attend an in-state college 30 min to a couple hours from home? It's high school 2.0 with largely the same cliques and all of the same baggage and social sorting from high school. If you have the money and/or they have the stats for merit aid, you ought to nudge your teen to broaden their horizons. Go West, young man.[/quote]

I don't really follow this.  Do any high schools really have a sizeable enough population at a state school from the same groups to even do this?  I grew up in a midwestern state with 2 main state universities, so a ton of people from my decently large HS went to one or the other.  But no one had the same friend groups beyond 2-3 people, and it was a rare enough event to encounter most of these people as to be special.  If anything, it served as a bit of a reset on relationships and reduced the need for HS-type posturing (e.g., the former football players could talk to the former nerds without any social concerns because it was just 2 people who were chatting among a ton of other people).

And the social scene at the state schools was way less stratified and "high school 2.0" than the SLAC I went to.[/quote]

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